Our favourite grifters are back. Some of them, anyway.

Mickey Bricks (Adrian Lester) has returned from Australia, where he sold the Sydney Opera House, but finds his crew has disbanded.

Marc Warren and Jaime Murray both quit the series, so their characters Danny and Stacey are busy conning their way across America. (Murray, incidentally, really went to America and stars in the second series of the brilliant serial killer drama Dexter, starting tonight on ITV1.) Ash, meanwhile, has gone back to short cons, Eddie lost his bar and is working as a restaurant waiter and Billy Bond (Ashley Walters), who filled the hole left by Lester's departure last series, has just disappeared. But Bill Bailey has popped up as local know-all Cyclops, a man with dodgy hair and even dodgier glasses.

As for good old Albert (Robert Vaughn), there was a "slight misunderstanding" with one of his cons and he's currently spending two years as a guest of Her Majesty.

"It's the best vacation I've ever had," he beams, having brought the high life to prison with him.

The con world has come with him, too, because he quickly sets Mickey up with a new "mark" - a ghastly property developer who's bribed, beaten and put people's lives in danger to make her fortune.

She's on the look-out to earn a fast buck, so when Mickey poses as a high-flying stockbroker who can use his insider trading to make her even richer, she's putty in his hands. But while they're pulling the scam, there are some mystery hard men hot on their tails.

And without smart mouth Danny there, will they be able to talk themselves out of trouble?